Montopolis is a multiethnic Neighborhood located approximately four miles southeast of downtown Austin.
Instead of establishing a permanent presence in Montopolis, however, subsequent European colonizers looked a few miles upriver to the new.
Tannehill, who in 1830 built a cabin and townsite and gave the new community its pretentious name.
The area was long visited and occasionally occupied by various Texas Indian nations; the first documented European or American to settle here was Jessie C.
Montopolis is a multiethnic Neighborhood located approximately four miles southeast of downtown Austin